This file describes the replication material for empirical tables and figures reported in the article "Electoral Reform and Trade-Offs in Representation" by Michael Becher and Irene Menendez Gonzalez.

All data analyses were carried out using Stata/SE 14.2 running on Mac OS 10.12.6.


1. List of variables

The document �Variables.pdf� lists the variables included in the different data files below. For definitions and sources, see the article text and Online Appendix. 



2. Stata do files

"code_Fig1.do� � Stata code to generate Figure 1.

"code_Table3.do� � Stata code to generate main results reported in Table 3.

"code_Fig2.R.� � R code for Figure 2 in paper, using estimates generated by code_Table3.do.

"code_Table4.do� � Stata code to generate results reported in Table 4 (plus descriptive stats for analysis sample in Table S4.1).

"code_OnlineAppendixS3.do� � Stata code to generate all tables and figures in Online Appendix S3.

"code_TableS2-2.do� � Stata code to generate descriptive statistics for estimation sample reported in Online Appendix Table S2.2.



3. Data files

"dataKR1.dta" � Data file for the main case of Zurich used for analysis of congruence (unit of analysis is MP-vote).

"dataKR2.dta" � Data file for the main case of Zurich used for analysis of attendance and MP attributes (unit of analysis is MP-parliament).

"dataKR3.dta" � Data file for the main case of Zurich used for analysis of speechmaking reported in Online Appendix Table S3.3 (unit of analysis is MP-debate).

"data_wahlkreise.xlsx" � Data on district magnitude used to calculate reform intensity, plotted in Figure 1 using code_Fig1.do. An excerpt is displayed in Table 2 of the paper.

"dataEP.dta" � Data for contemporary case of European Parliament.




